Sociology of Health and Medicine
7.5 credits
Reading list, Master's level, 2SC135
A revised version of the reading list is available.
Main group 1
Preparatory reading
- Bradby, Hannah, Medical sociology: an introduction, London, SAGE Publications, 2009Compulsory
- Nettleton, Sarah, The sociology of health and illness, 3. ed., Cambridge, Polity, 2013Compulsory
Other course litterature
- Bradby, Hannah, Medicine, Health and Society: A Critical Sociology, Sage Publications, 2012
- Wilkinson, Richard G.; Pickett, Kate, The spirit level: why more equal societies almost always do better, London, Allen Lane, 2009
- Parsons, Talcott, The social system., Glencoe, Ill., 1951 (Chapter X)
- Frank, Arthur W., The wounded storyteller: body, illness, and ethics, Second edition., Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2013
- Bourdieu, Pierre.; Nice, Richard., Outline of a Theory of Practice, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1977 (Chapter II)
- Durkheim, Emile, Suicide: a study in sociology, Snowballpublishing, 2013
- Schelling, Thomas C., Micromotives and macrobehavior: with a new preface and the Nobel Lecture, Rev. ed., New York, W. W. Norton, cop. 2006
- Wasserman, Danuta; Wasserman, Camilla, Oxford textbook of suicidology and suicide prevention: a global perspective, Oxford, Oxford University Press, cop. 2009 (pp. 139–147 - Ilkka Henrik Mäkinen)
- Bruce, Nigel; Pope, Daniel; Stanistreet, Debbi, Quantitative methods for health research: a practical interactive guide to epidemiology and statistics, Chichester, England, John Wiley & Sons, c2008 (Chapter II &
III)
A selection of articles from international journals will be used.
* Compulsory